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Production Checklist
Article submission | Scholastica
Article selection
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Author agreements
Offprint orders
Production process
- macros
- DOI | Permalinks
- final review
- file preparation
- file submission
- contract proofs
- final steps | file upload
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The Journal Production Checklist summarizes the steps of what and when things need to be submitted to the Journal Administrator during the production process.
Following the Production Checklist helps to ensure that when you are finally ready to submit your files to printer, the Administrator has everything in place to provide the printer with the necessary information to begin processing your files and printing and distributing the completed journal.
Extensive information on each of the steps can be found in Publishing Links to the left!
There are two versions of the Checklist, one for print journals, one for online-only. Most of the steps are the same.
As soon as articles for an issue have been selected:
As soon as an article is slotted, begin Author Copyright Agreement Process by determining which of the three agreement type is appropriate.
A fully executed agreement is mandatory for each publishing author – no article may be published until a signed agreement for each author is in place.
Once you have completed the editing of the files and applied the formatting macro, you will have the approximate article page count and can being the Offprint Order Process:
Throughout the production process, but especially in the two weeks prior to submitting files to the printer (for online-only journals, prior to posting content on the Scholarship Repository or your website):
Prior to submitting your pdf files to the printer:
Steps 7-9 are for print journals. Online-only journals can skip directly to Step 10.
When you are ready to submit your files to the printer:
Contract proofs are processed in 5 working days and shipped via UPS overnight mail to the journal mailboxes in the Student Center.
Once all corrections have been made to the contract proof:
Once the article files are finalized, there are a few final steps: